Temporal and structural patterns of extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae incidence in Swiss hospitals

Renggli, L.; Gasser, M.; Plüss-Suard, C.; Harbarth, S.; Kronenberg, A. (2022). Temporal and structural patterns of extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae incidence in Swiss hospitals. Journal of hospital infection, 120, pp. 36-42. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jhin.2021.11.006

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Background: Routine surveillance data revealed increasing rates of invasive extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (ESCR-KP) in Switzerland, from 1.3% in 2004 to 8.5% in 2019 [1].

Aim: The main aim of this study was to understand the causes of this recent trend, specifically to identify predictors affecting the incidence of invasive ESCR-KP infections in Switzerland.

Methods: A retrospective observational multi-centre study was conducted in 21 Swiss hospitals over a period of 11 years (2009 - 2019). Potential predictor variables for the incidence of invasive ESCR-KP infections were studied with a multiple linear regression model. In an additional analysis, the overall ESCR-KP incidence (all sample sites) was investigated.

Findings: An increasing incidence of invasive ESCR-KP infections from 0.01 to 0.04 patients/1,000 bed-days was observed between 2009 and 2019 and confirmed by multiple linear regression analysis (P< 0.01). ESCR-KP incidence was higher in university hospitals (P< 0.01) and in the French-speaking region than in the German-speaking region (P< 0.01). There was no association with antibiotic consumption. Analysing the overall ESCR-KP incidence (all sample sites) revealed high variability between university hospitals, mainly due to a high proportion of patients with screening isolates at Geneva University Hospital (50% of patients with ESCR-KP).

Conclusion: The incidence of invasive ESCR-KP infections increased in Switzerland between 2009 and 2019 and was not associated with antibiotic consumption. Our findings indicate that in this low-incidence setting, structural factors such as the hospital type and the linguistic region play a more important role in relation to ESCR-KP incidence than the hospital's antibiotic consumption.

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